Spiritual Quotes

If we want to be free [get liberated], don’t compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours.

Competition is a bad company [kusang, the company which will bring our downfall].

The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop.

If you are right, no one will bother you in this world. If you do not hurt anyone in this world, or you have no intention of hurting anyone, then no one can hurt you.

All day long, one continues to suffer sweet or bitter fruits. This life has been attained for the purpose of experiencing!

Relative’ is a duality!

What are dualities? They are what creates the worldly life [sansaar]. And if one attains Liberation [moksha], he will be beyond dualities!

The language for attaining Liberation [moksha] is beyond duality. The language for worldly life is with duality.

Resentments make even the best of us feel superior.

Once the illusion (branti) goes away, one can see ‘as it is’, and that is why ignorance goes away. When ignorance goes, maya (deceit) goes. Once God’s maya is gone, the solution is found.

The mind is not the one that harasses you, it is the attachment-abhorrence that harasses you. It is because of the attachment-abhorrence that one has memory.

What is the goal of a human being? An Indian person can truly achieve a state of the Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma, the Lord]. To achieve one’s own Absolute Supreme Self state is the ultimate goal!

The business of imagined pleasure is associated with pain.

People’s mind becomes their boss and torments them. So what would become of the one who believes he can be the boss [control] of the mind of others?

How can one become free from the mind? If he lives as if he is dead, then he can become free from his mind.

The Gnanis [The enlightened ones] have said that if one lives as if he is dead, death will never come to him.

The moment one is born, the ‘saw starts cutting’. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning.

How can we afford to live in the world in which one has to die [one day]? We are eternal.

Where there is ‘egoism’, there is no God. Where there is God, there is no ‘egoism’.

Undecided thoughts’ is called the mind. ‘Decided thoughts’ is called the intellect.

To have contrary [negative, wrong] intellect has become an odd rule in this current era, hasn’t it? The one who proceeds with caution will win.

Samyak buddhi (right intellect) is that which shows things as they are.

One with more insight (sooj) is considered wise. To have more insight [sooj] is a natural gift. One may have more sooj but may have no intellect.

Nothing should go un-noticed.

If we care for our spiritual needs, we shall find strength for any other well-being.

When I ache to live, my mind loves to stay with the peaceful whiteness of a pigeon’s care...in boundless amity..

When will money not come to one? It is when he speaks ill of others and scandalizes. Money will come to the one who has purity of mind, body and speech.

The absence of inner intent for kashays is the same as the inner intent of the absolute Self (Parmatma). If one’s kashays are gone, then he becomes the ‘owner’ of the whole universe.

What a wonderful world it could be, when spiritual factions would choose to read sacred writings as colorful metaphors and not as bloody declarations of war. (“Is heaven a place in the sky?”)

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

As long as the egoism is there, how can one attain the true religion?

Egoism itself is non-religion (adharma) and where there is no egoism that indeed is religion. Without the presence of a living Gnani, it is not possible for egoism to decrease.

I hope that I am a good man … it would be enough.

One whose faith (nishtha) is set in God, he is known as Brahma-nishtha (settled in the Self).

When Self (Khuda) is realized, egoism (Aap-khudi) goes away.

When does one think of God? It is when he gains something from Him, when love for Him arises!

Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World.

I love the way you lit candles, with the insistence that I never look, just so I can open my eyes and find the light in the darkness.

When does the external work improve? It improves when inner peace is attained.

Nature will forgive those who accept their own mistakes and not blame God for them. When God is not the doer of anything at all, one takes on grave liability by saying that God did it.

The one who never rebukes his underhand will have no boss in this world!

Depression is like being under house arrest, only there is no house.

If your financial life is not in order, every other area of your life will be in disorder.

In heaven there will be no tears, because every tear was cried when Jesus died on the cross.

Yes it´s true, God is good, but not everything that seems to be good comes automatically from God.

Pay attention to your life and you will see bits of 'magic' that happens precisely when you need it to happen.

I am nothing without the One who is everything.

Jesus, Made in Heaven, assembled on earth.

When you are in God's will, you're never to late, always on time.

When heaven invades earth, it's more than a tsunami.